A Newbie and his Rig

Greetings standing on the corner! I welcome your membership to the Cable Vine!

I have never been to the East Coast. My sister, and her husband, took my mother on many road trips across America in their motor coach. More than once they have passed through your fair city.

My sister is the "Trophy Wife" of an older gentleman (A super nice guy! Bleeding heart liberals, both, but I digress!). When he retired, the kids took what they wanted from their house and my sister had a big garage sale on what was left. What didn't disappear in the garage sale was given to the Disabled American Veterans Charity. They sold everything that has a title, established a post office box residence in Reno, Nevada, bought a big, fancy motor coach with a Toyota Prius hitched on back and went on the road full time. They pick up their mail in Reno twice a year when they visit their kids in San Josť, California.

The point of my rant, my mother has traveled through all of the lower 48 states, spent a summer in Alaska, has seen each of Canada's provinces and territories with my sister and her husband. I asked my mother where she has seen the most beauty. Without hesitation, she said Alaska has no equal, except the New England fall foliage.

Re: A Newbie and his Rig

You are lucky. Too many firms view the work vehicle as only an expense on the budget line. Try taking a pole and see how many here drive subcompact cars.

It was I recall USIC soon after they opened that removed the air conditioners from vehicles to save gas. First they forgot or disregarded the ac boosted productivity and disregarded the dangers of heat stroke, this was summer in Texas. They did not consider that the laptops would overheat and fail stopping all work. After replacing burned out laptops they put the ac's back.

Re: A Newbie and his Rig

Originally Posted by ProfessionalLocator

You are lucky. Too many firms view the work vehicle as only an expense on the budget line. Try taking a pole and see how many here drive subcompact cars.

I was tasked in starting the designating department and they gave me the VP's old vehicle and I had to make it work. 120k on the ticker but still running strong. I have to squeeze my lunchbox down a little to get it in the truck.

Re: A Newbie and his Rig

Originally Posted by standing on the corner

I was tasked in starting the designating department and they gave me the VP's old vehicle and I had to make it work. 120k on the ticker but still running strong. I have to squeeze my lunchbox down a little to get it in the truck.

I was for several years lucky enough to drive a 2005 Silverado, standard cab with a V6, given to S&N Locating by the construction division because the transmission was failing and they considered it worn out. We fixed the transmission and kept it running. After several more years they decided to scrap it, 250,000 miles and running great, in favor of one of the old subcompacts in the fleet only due to the POS car got better gas mileage. In the next 8 months went through 3 of the old POS subcompacts.